Oh, so that is why Shakespeare wrote 126 love sonnets to a man--he was a Roman Catholic. The mystery is finally solved.
I’m Roman Catholic.
What’s your point?
A) I didn’t say he definitively WAS a Roman Catholic. I said he very well could have been. Big difference. B) I never heard the love sonnets were written to a man - what is your source for this information? (I have a degree in English Lit, by the way - so this better be a good, scholarly source....not some flamer...) And like Irish Catholic, I am also Roman Catholic, having left the Episcopal Church years ago. I also ask, what’s your point? Yes, we all know there have been gays and pedophiles in the priesthood. Doesn’t make the whole institution bad or evil - just those individuals who commit evil. Including the bishops who shielded the pedophiles.
I have wondered about the sonnet thing. Do we know as a fact that they were TO a man and not FOR a man?